Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanmay Bhowmik, Mississippi State University; Nan Niu, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

human who plays an active and pri-mary role in making the final decision. Such a process is called assisted requirements tracing(ART).8 Recent studies on students’ ART performances5, 8 clearly showed the challenges inthat students invariably made errors of omission (threw out correct links) and errors of com-mission (added incorrect links). Dekhtyar et al.8 conducted a statistical analysis of the fac-tors affecting ART performance, though all the participants were students enrolled in Soft-ware Engineering courses. Our work, reported, in this paper extends the body of knowledge inART by making a head-to-head comparison between students and software professionals.Preparing graduates for a smooth and successful transition toward their roles in